He had two wives, former model and actress Margaret McConnell (married June 24, 1934) and Bronya Galef; the latter marriage ending with his death. He has two children, William Pereira, Jr., and a daughter, Monica Pereira, a Spanish teacher.

He had two wives, former model and actress Margaret McConnell (married June 24, 1934) and Bronya Galef; the latter marriage ending with his death. He has two children, William Pereira, Jr., and a daughter, Monica Pereira, a Spanish teacher.

The Pepperdine University campus, explicitly modeled by architect WilliamPereira after the fire-hardened, pedestrian villages of Patmos, Greece, is an example of fire-conscious architecture and landscape design ...Pereira crafted a master plan for the development of Malibu in 1965 ......

The Pepperdine University campus, explicitly modeled by architect WilliamPereira after the fire-hardened, pedestrian villages of Patmos, Greece, is an example of fire-conscious architecture and landscape design ...Pereira crafted a master plan for the development of Malibu in 1965 ......

The three structures on the western half — a parking garage, former printing plant and a 1973 office building designed by WilliamPereira — would be demolished to make way for two apartment towers of 37 and 53 stories containing more than 1,100 apartments, a swimming pool and ground-floor shops....